For example: 5e’s published rules don’t include stats for a plow, so if your DM limits you to the Player’s Handbook and you need to help a farmer plow their field, you’re out of luck. Your DM might reasonably limit you to published items (Adventurer’s league went that route), which dramatically handicaps the feature because the items published in the Player’s Handbook and other sources are tools and items catered to adventurers but typically omit common items which might be useful in real-world scenarios (though some variety of artisans tools suffice in many cases). The effect is less specific than spells like Creation or Fabricate, which can make it both unpredictable and abusable. As the Bard gains levels, you can create larger and more valuable items, allowing you to produce tools to solve a variety of problems.īecause half of the College of Creation’s class features are tied up in Performance of Creation, it’s crucial that you and your DM are on the same page about how it works. Mote of Potential expands on Bardic Inspiration by adding unique rider effects, and the other subclass features grant the ability to create and animate objects. Bard Subclasses – Bard Colleges College of Creation TCoEĬollege of Creation gives the Bard access to some powerful new tools. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. RPGBOT is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Keep in mind that the state of the meta periodically changes as new source materials are released and this article will be updating accordingly as time allows. The advice offered below is based on the current State of the Character Optimization Meta as of when the article was last updated. I also won’t cover Unearthed Arcana content because it’s not finalized, and I can’t guarantee that it will be available to you in your games. I will not include 3rd-party content, including content from DMs Guild, even if it is my own, because I can’t assume that your game will allow 3rd-party content or homebrew.